Our latest performance reviews - click on the publication and date for the full text.
- University of Richmond, VA, November 5, 2007 "...Lionheart lavished tone and feeling on the Dalbavie and Palestrina, the program’s artistic summits" -- Clarke Bustard
- Lionheart - El Siglo de Oro - Early Music America, Summer 2007 "... you want to listen again and again." -- Beth Adelman
- New Recording - El Siglo de Oro - Primarily A Capella, May 10, 2007 "Great recordings of the Spanish Renaissance composers...are often hard to find. Luckily, Lionheart has simplified the task..." --
- Lionheart's a capella program is just sublime - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2007 "These men sing together with impeccable skill and nuance." -- Elaine Schmidt
- John the Revelator, Lionheart & Ethel - New York Times "...an ideal vehicle for Mr. Kline’s offbeat but ultimately moving ceremony." - Steve Smith
- John the Revelator, Lionheart & Ethel - Opera News "...their trademark purity of sound does indeed translate beautifully to contemporary music." -- Arlo McKinnon
- John the Revelator is an astonishing composition - Home Grown Radio NJ Blog, February 2007 "Lionheart performed these works with consummate energy and commitment, their blend a sublime evocation of the texts." -- John Hammel
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Lionheart enchants with spiritual song - Troy Times Union, April 10, 2006 - "...their unity of intonation, pronunciation and interpretation was flawless and very beautiful." -- Joseph Dalton
- The Calm Mysteries of Another World - New York Times, October 4, 2004 "...immerse yourself in the calming, mystical, musical pleasure of the voices..." -- Anthony Tommasini
- Lionheart Singers Create Intense Musical Communion - Albuquerque Journal, April 15, 2003 "...Lionheart created a level of beauty and purity rarely found..." -- Joanne Sheehy Hoover
- To Hell and Back - New Yorker, March 31, 2003 "Most striking was “Chants,” -- Alex Ross
- A beautiful blending of voices - The Buffalo News, December 12, 2001 "Lionheart is one ensemble that gives the early music movement a good name."-- Herman Trotter
- "Ancestral Voices" at the South Bank Centre - Andante Magazine, September, 2001 "Lionheart kept a late-Friday-night audience entranced..."-- David Vickers
- Group's Gregorian chant soars at Southern -- The Columbus Dispatch, February 26, 2001 "...the Southern's acoustics preserved the clear diction and accurate pitch" -- Jon Christensen
- Medieval music program is surprisingly robust -- The News-Journal, December 8, 2000 "The voices of Lionheart...are lyric, pure in intonation, and wonderfully blended." -- Paul Langston
- Lionheart Combines Early Tradition, Theatrics -- St. Paul Pioneer Planet July 31, 2000 "This is sensuous music and Lionheart successfully communicated both its passion and its austerity." -- William Randall Beard
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Classical Notes Online -- Raleigh Spectator Online 1/19/00...Lionheart amazed with its beauty and purity of tone, miraculous blend, flawless balance, and seamless projection." -- John W. Lambert
- Lionheart fills cathedral with warmth of season -- Kansas City Star 12/17/99"...Lionheart's accomplishments appear almost miraculous...Lionheart embodies the best qualities of the early-music movement – they are consummate musicians who really love an audience." -- Mickey Coalwell
- Latin is far from dead at a Lionheart Show -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/25/99"...bell-clear pitches...soaring, open tones...superb diction and a storyteller's feel for text." -- Tom Strini
- Machaut at the Met - reviewed in Tower Records' online magazine "e-pulse" 7/10/99"The solo singing . . . was as riveting as the rich polyphony. A transporting experience." -- Robert Levine
- Paris 1200 at Regensburg's "Tage Alter Musik" Festival, May 1999 "The six-man ensemble thrilled the listener . . ." -- Der Neue Tag
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Anonymous 4 and Lionheart offer dazzling rendition of early music -- The Kansas City Star, April 25, 1999 "The performances were of beauty passing understanding: voices silken and sweet and flawlessly tuned, each phrase lovingly molded, the music ever buoyant." -- Scott Cantrell
- Vocal groups sparkle while honoring Ockeghem -- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Monday, April 19, 1999". . . the two ensembles produced extraordinary sound, gently surrounding the listener with beauty." -- Mark Kanny
- A cappella concert latest to draw Early-Music crowd -- The Ann Arbor News, Tuesday, April 20, 1999 " This was music of peculiar beauty, foreign and familiar at the same time." -- Bruce Martin
- Anonymous 4 and Lionheart Bring an Ancient Art to Life -- Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, May 4, 1999 "In any combination, from one voice to 10, the singing was assured and direct. Clarity and balance we expected--the degree of individual nuance supported within the blend was revelatory." -- John Henken, Special to The Times
- Lionheart at The Kennedy Center, Tuesday, December 8, 1998 -- Washington Post, Friday, December 11, 1998 "To a man, Lionheart sang with limpid precision . . . There was a spellbinding quality to the singing . . . " -- L. Peat
- Lionheart performance is exquisite -- Reading Eagle/Reading Times, December 21, 1998 "If the audience was searching for something beyond the clamor of the malls and the lunacy of the airwaves, they doubtless found it in this incomparable space and in the stark simplicity of six perfectly blended voices." -- Susan L. Pena
- Lionheart delivers the original, untainted goods -- St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, Monday, November 30, 1998 ". . . with a blend of musicological savvy, liturgical coherence and warm-hearted singing . . . each voice in the ensemble rings true, as one could tell when they passed by in procession . . . Lionheart delivered the original, untainted goods." -- Michael Fleming, Classical Music Critic
- Transcending the medieval - Classical New Jersey, Volume 2, Number 44, July 1, 1998 ". . . some of the finest ensemble singing this listener has ever heard . . . the audience had been won over to such an extent that whatever their original expectations, they leapt to their feet in an instantaneous and unanimous standing ovation." -- Paul Somers
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A Capella Singers Assemble To Honor A Master -- New York Times, May 20, 1998 "The combined sound of the two groups in the resonant church was mystical. These vocalists understand that by singing with open, focused tone and steady, unforced production, their sound will linger and resonate with haunting beauty . . . May these two estimable ensembles sing together often." -- Anthony Tommasini
Quotes from other reviews
"The presentation was musically and historically sensible, and allowed Lionheart to show its considerable strengths...The plainchant ... had an eerie serenity and was beautifully unified...smoothly blended and impeccably balanced sound...virtually vibrato-less purity." Lionheart sang "sensual medieval songs with earthy passion...impressive clarity and ethereal beauty...an involving and refreshing intensity...Seldom has a single monophonic vocal line sounded so insinuating. The audience wanted an encore...a vigorous, affecting performance". --The New York Times
"...gorgeously blended...hauntingly beautiful...singing as sublime as the music; firmly projected but unforced, velvet-finished. You could spend your money on a week at a spa, or several sessions with a shrink, but you would be hard pressed to have a more warming, calming experience than this." -- Kansas City Star
"...the kind of offbeat musical fare South Florida needs more of...a remarkable concert...perfect unisons." - Miami Herald
"...beautifully hushed quality of the artistry...a serene experience...singers sustain phrases and achieve clear balances without drawing attention to the effort...exceptional...no laundry list will suffice in describing the glory of the music or the sensitivity of the singing...[Lionheart] also displayed a unified sense of humor." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"...sung in exquisite style by six stellar singers...excellent intonation and ensemble." -- Washington Post
"The chants are appropriately ethereal, but most interesting are the secular ballads, which provide fascinating glimpses of life during this time." -- USA Today"...[Lionheart’s] voices glistened...like a jewel set in gold." -- Los Angeles Times
...Lionheart creates a silken, meditative aura on My Fayre Ladye..." -- Denver Post
"Lionheart cultivates an ultra-refined, spiritual, and intimate approach to their singing...poised throughout...builds to a majestic climax." -- BBC Review
"[Lionheart sang] seamlessly and with mesmerizing atmosphere." -- Orange Count Register
"...the six men, with their light wiry voices twisted into a strong braid of sound, could pass for a gang of monks." -- Newsday
"Despite the antiquity of such music, Lionheart has been able to make it sound immediate and contemporary." -- Bill Parker, Net Radio